Procurement Specialist, Global Procurement Team

Amazon; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Procurement Specialist for the Global Procurement Team. This role involves managing vendor relationships, procurement operations, and driving efficiencies in the fulfillment center. The ideal candidate will have extensive supply chain experience and proficiency in data analysis tools like Excel and Tableau.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of supply chain experience.
• 3+ years of experience with Excel or Tableau.
• Experience with supplier or vendor relationship management.

Responsibilities

• Manage vendor relationships and procurement operations.
• Lead supplier management KPI and metrics reporting.
• Coordinate procurement and inventory management for non-merchandise items.

Skills

Supplier relationship management

Data analysis

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

Tableau

Coupa

Job description

Procurement Specialist, Global Procurement Team

As a Studio Procurement Specialist for the eShop Content Services team, you will serve as the bridge between centralized Procurement and the building leadership. You will own the site’s indirect procurement operation responsibilities at a site level, including vendor management of 3rd party service providers, purchase order management, and inventory management. You will lead supplier management KPI and metrics reporting, and work with stakeholders to find and understand deviation and improvement areas. You will provide procurement leadership and align with the building leadership team to drive efficiencies and improvements at the site(s).

Key job responsibilities
• Provide procurement operations support for the fulfillment center, including supplier management (goods and services), non-inventory labor, flow, and space models, cycle counts, inventory management, and procurement transaction and expediting support.
• Lead and develop team of non-Inventory associates to ensure building has adequate resources and is set up for success.
• Develop deep knowledge of non-inventory items and align with like buildings to drive best practices
• Manage and drive safety compliance for non-inventory teams during day-to-day activities and partner with regional/local safety teams for safety issues and escalations at the site level.
• Manage KPI to measure, control and benchmark procurement processes including creation of recurring metrics reports to drive improvements for the Operations network
• Develop relationship across the building and network to ensure best practices are being shared and implemented
• Align with internal customers, Finance and Procurement Operations to understand budgetary targets by building and develop methods of measuring and defining savings, value and other category metrics
• Assist Finance and internal customers to determine budgets and maintenance for blanket PO management.
• Using input from the category team, build the category metrics model to track and monitor performance in relationship to the category strategy, such as supplier scorecard and other site audits on 3P services.
• Measure actual vs planned savings; as savings trends are identified, own action plans to meet goals and develop solutions
• Work in partnership both internally and with suppliers to develop innovative solutions to provide Procurement support to the Operations network
• Develop and implement ways to measure suppliers to drive continuous performance improvement on behalf of Amazon
• Coordinate the demand identification, procurement, and inventory management of all non-merchandise items required for building operation. This includes corrugate, packing materials, labor and janitorial services, etc.
• Partner with AP, Suppliers and various internal teams to ensure timely resolution of vendor payment issues

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of supply chain experience
- Experience with supplier or vendor relationship management
- 3+ years of Excel or Tableau (data manipulation, macros, charts and pivot tables) experience
- Bachelor's degree, or 5+ years of using Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and analytical platforms, including but not limited to the ability to analyze data using pivots and V-Lookups experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in procurement
- Experience in Coupa or other financial management/procurement software

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